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Cnn.com |
7:46pm PDT |
Microsoft gives up bid to buy Yahoo Inc. |
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Summary: Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo Inc. and will not pursue a hostile bid for the Internet company. Microsoft said the breakdown of the proposal came despite having raised its bid to $33 a share after an intial of |
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Cnn.com |
7:46pm PDT |
Microsoft gives up bid to buy Yahoo |
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Summary: Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo Inc. and will not pursue a hostile bid for the Internet company. Microsoft said the breakdown of the proposal came despite having raised its bid to $33 a share after an intial of |
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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
Brown offers Labour reassurance |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is set to reassure the Labour Party he can deliver success despite disastrous election results. |
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Yahoo News |
7:20pm PDT |
Big Brown wins Derby; filly Eight Belles euthanized
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Big Brown was pulling away from the field, accelerating with every powerful stride toward the finish line in the Kentucky Derby. The crowd of 157,770 was on its feet and cheering as the big, unbeaten, muscular bay crossed the line first, 4 3/4 length |
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Yahoo News |
7:18pm PDT |
China slams Dalai Lama, to talk to his envoys
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China kept up a barrage of
criticism against the Dalai Lama on Sunday, even as envoys of
Tibet's exiled spiritual leader went into fence-mending talks
with officials, the first since unrest in the mountain region. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13pm PDT |
Upshall's late goal lifts Flyers 6-4, eliminates Canadiens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scott Upshall scored with 3:04 remaining in the third period and the Philadelphia Flyers advanced to the Eastern Conference final with a 6-4 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night. |
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BBC News |
7:00pm PDT |
Time running out |
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Summary: Condoleezza Rice tries to force Middle East breakthrough |
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BBC News |
6:50pm PDT |
Dalai aides set for China meeting |
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Summary: Representatives of the Dalai Lama are in southern China to meet government representatives. |
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Yahoo News |
6:33pm PDT |
Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Microsoft Corp withdrew
its offer for Yahoo Inc on Saturday as negotiations
fell through on price, even after the software giant raised its
bid by about $5 billion to $47.5 billion. |
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Cnn.com |
6:23pm PDT |
Iraqi boys killed by U.S. helo, companion says |
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Summary: At least 28 people were wounded today in a U.S. attack on a building near a hospital in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City slum, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. In a statement, the U.S. military said the strike targeted "known criminal elements."
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Yahoo News |
6:23pm PDT |
Obama beats Clinton in Pacific battle
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama beat rival
Hillary Clinton by just seven votes in Guam's nominating
contest after record numbers of residents voted in the tiny
U.S. territory's primary, officials said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:22pm PDT |
Obama wins close race, beats Clinton on Guam
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. The count of more than 4,500 ballots took all night. |
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Yahoo News |
6:15pm PDT |
Obama wins Guam, looks to Indiana, North Carolina
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The tiny US Pacific island of Guam relished a rare moment in the spotlight Saturday, weighing in on the raging Democratic White House battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. |
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Yahoo News |
5:49pm PDT |
Big Brown powers to Kentucky Derby win
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Big Brown produced a
dramatic stretch run to win the Kentucky Derby Saturday,
overcoming a potentially disastrous post position to remain
unbeaten in four career starts. |
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Yahoo News |
5:42pm PDT |
Obama wins Guam caucuses by just 7 votes over Clinton
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. The count of more than 4,500 ballots took all night. |
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BBC News |
5:40pm PDT |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo |
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Summary: Software giant Microsoft drops its three-month-old bid to buy internet firm Yahoo after the two sides fail to agree a price. |
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BBC News |
5:34pm PDT |
Woman and boy found dead in house |
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Summary: Police launch a murder inquiry after the bodies of a woman and a boy are found at a house in Fife. |
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Yahoo News |
5:30pm PDT |
Microsoft says it withdraws offer for Yahoo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Microsoft Corp withdrew
its offer for Yahoo Inc on Saturday after negotiations
fell through because Yahoo wanted more than the $33 a share
that Microsoft was willing to offer. |
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Yahoo News |
5:24pm PDT |
Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid, rebuffing higher sale price
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Microsoft says it's dropping its three-month-old bid to buy Yahoo because the two sides can't agree on an acceptable sale price. |
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Cnn.com |
5:23pm PDT |
Microsoft withdraws bid for Yahoo |
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Summary: Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Internet portal Yahoo Inc.
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Yahoo News |
5:21pm PDT |
Hats, juleps rule at Kentucky Derby
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Skip Koepnick knows where his tax rebate is going — to a weekend of fun at Churchill Downs. |
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Cnn.com |
5:17pm PDT |
1 dead in Mississippi plant explosion |
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Summary: An explosion at a Mississippi paper plant killed one worker Saturday and injured 17 others, according to authorities.
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BBC News |
5:09pm PDT |
Bolivian army warning over vote |
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Summary: Bolovia's military says an autonomy vote in the eastern department of Santa Cruz threatens territorial integrity. |
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Yahoo News |
5:02pm PDT |
Obama wins Guam contest: officials
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama beat
Hillary Clinton in the nominating contest on the Pacific island
of Guam by just seven votes, election officials said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:58pm PDT |
Obama takes Guam by seven votes: report
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the Guam Democratic caucuses by a narrow seven votes over Hillary Clinton, the Pacific Daily News website reported quoting official figures. |
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Yahoo News |
4:37pm PDT |
Big Brown rolls to Kentucky Derby win
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Big Brown produced a
dramatic stretch run to win the Kentucky Derby Saturday,
overcoming a potentially disastrous post position to remain
unbeaten in four career starts. |
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Cnn.com |
4:27pm PDT |
Obama wins Guam caucuses by just 7 votes |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama won Guam's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday by just seven votes, according to a Guam election official. Despite the 90-degree tropical heat, "A lot of manamko [elderly people] came out," said voter Cathleen Moore-Linn.
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BBC News |
4:27pm PDT |
Ofsted 'can deter would-be heads' |
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Summary: The pressures of the Ofsted inspection is deterring good candidates from becoming head teachers, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:11pm PDT |
A special birthday |
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Summary: Amy's mother survived a brain tumour to give birth |
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BBC News |
4:10pm PDT |
Health tourist checks 'not done' |
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Summary: Around a third of hospitals in England and Wales are ignoring government advice to charge foreign visitors for NHS treatment. |
